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Call Upon St. Joseph Health System to Use Valuable Patient Care
Resources in Manner True to Their Mission

LOS ANGELES, June 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hundreds of Healthcare
workers from Los Angeles and Orange Counties demonstrated in front of the
law offices of Foley & Lardner, LLP on Thursday, June 12th to protest the
firm's anti-union tactics aimed against healthcare workers organizing their
union at St. Joseph Health System (SJHS), a $3.4 billion dollar corporation
founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange (SSJO). The SJHS employees
are particularly angered that the coercion and harassment is being paid for
by resources that could be better used to address workplace needs and
provide care to those in need instead of to deny workers' their rights.

The 10,000 caregivers, part of a statewide unionization effort
involving employees at five SJHS hospitals, have been subjected to a
sophisticated and illegal anti-union campaign throughout their four year
long efforts. Beyond that, SJHS has a ten year history of responding to
employee unionization efforts by contracting out their dirty work to
union-busting consultants. The current campaign which is now directed by
Rick Albert, a partner at Foley & Lardner who specializes in
"union-avoidance", has featured managers, trained by Foley & Lardner
attorneys, spying on, harassing and intimidating workers who are known to
be involved in the union effort, and has resulted in multiple violations of
relevant labor law. The fact that SJHS has hired this outside firm, and at
the same time repeatedly maintains that it is not an anti-union employer
further highlights the contradictions between rhetoric and behavior that
have tarnished the reputation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange. The
SSJO: founded the hospitals; hold the controlling majority on the current
Board of Trustees; and their General Superior, Sr. Katherine Gray, csj,
chairs the health system's board.

Magdalena Morales, who works in Environmental Services at St. Jude
Hospital (Fullerton), says management's attempts to have it both ways are
ruining staff morale. "I don't understand how they can spend all this money
to fight us when all we are trying to do is take care of patients the best
we can. It makes us feel very disrespected." The workers are calling on
SJHS to live up to their core values of justice, dignity, service and
excellence and work with, instead of against them to focus on providing
better patient care.

The daytime demonstration featured workers from St. Jude, St. Joseph
and Mission Hospitals in Orange County as well as community, political and
religious supporters. Speaking to the upbeat and full-throated crowd, John
A. Perez, candidate for the State Assembly seat representing downtown LA,
joined the workers in also calling on the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange
to stay true to their legacy of supporting workers' rights to organize,
just as they did in the past with farm workers and janitors. "At a time
when millions of Californians have inadequate, if any, healthcare coverage,
and when healthcare professionals and community leaders struggle to find
long term solutions to this major problem," said Perez, "it is tremendously
disappointing that the Sisters of St. Joseph, once reliable allies to
California's progressive communities, are wasting valuable resources to
fight their own employees."

St. Joseph Health System, which has in the past been found liable for
numerous Unfair Labor Practice violations by the National Labor Relations
Board is currently under investigation for harassing and surveilling
employees engaged in protected activity and continues to retaliate in other
ways against workers engaged in the organizing drive. As dedicated
caregivers, committed to our jobs and to our patients we believe there is a
better way.

The 150,000-member SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West is the largest
hospital and healthcare union in the western United States and represents
every type of healthcare worker, including nurses, professional, technical
and service classifications. Our mission is to achieve high-quality
healthcare for all.

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